How do you judge a big club?
On attendance, former glories, ground size, playing budget, wages paid, stoppers, toilet facilities, lottery, blah blah blah f**king blah.
We're up there, but by no means a given for the title. Still I think we are entitled to expect a challenge. We're big enough to compete so nothing else matters.
And can we stop berating the manager cos he had two years off, it means f**k all 9 months in, he should have shaken the rust off by now. If thats the excuse then we should never have given him the job. If the excuse is that it was a 2 year plan and we now have a good footing to sign 7 or 8 players that will improve us by 15-25 points next season then im happy.
Mybe we just need the club to communicate LS's feeling on his 'plan' a bit more often instead of media friendly responses to repeatedly underacieving performances.